Mitt Romney’s shift from a mild and meek support of abortion rights to his current loud and strong opposition has been a topic of conversation for several months now. While he didn’t attend the forum, Governor Romney’s rivals are looking to exploit his inconsistency on the issue ahead of Tuesday’s South Carolina primary.

Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum have each signed a Personhood USA pledge stating that they would advocate laws defining life as beginning at conception and only appoint judges and officials who support that position.

All four were in rare form, courting evangelical and social conservative voters to further separate Romney from the party’s anti-choice base. Moderators asked each candidate at the forum a question related to Romney. Rick Perry was asked to differentiate his views from his rival’s. He quipped, “You don’t have enough time in here, seriously. Governor Romney’s been on both sides of the issue of life. This was a decision that Governor Romney made for political convenience, not an issue of his heart,” Perry said.

But Perry, who hasn’t always opposed abortion in all cases as he does now (he used to support rape and incest exceptions) described his own changing views as as a transformation not a flip-flop fro political convenience.

Perry’s out of the game, but all the candidates are united in their opposition to abortion rights, federal funding for abortion and Planned Parenthood, and what they consider overreaching by the courts on abortion-related issues. Gingrich and Santorum criticized Romney for language in the Massachusetts health insurance law that they said favors abortion-rights groups.

They also used the forum to attack Planned Parenthood (surprise) and the court system (also a surprise). Newt Gingrich claimed that he would “defund Planned Parenthood sometime in early 2013 if elected president,” while Paul said the organization “wouldn’t get any money” under his administration. Santorum and Perry pledged to veto any legislation that would include funding for Planned Parenthood and Ron Paul said the organization “wouldn’t get any money” under his administration.

The latest undercover “sting” video seeking to discredit Planned Parenthood is here. In this selectively edited video, a group called the Center for Medical Progress charges that the reproductive health clinics are “selling” fetal tissue and organs.

The person behind the Center for Medical Progress, a group of self-described “citizen journalists” monitoring medical ethics which didn’t seem to be doing much until it launched its “investigation” into Planned Parenthood, is the former research director for Live Action, the anti-choice group that put out similarly misleading videos targeting the organization over sex-selective abortions and sex-trafficking.

The latest undercover “sting” video seeking to discredit Planned Parenthood is here. In this selectively edited video, a group called the Center for Medical Progress charges that the reproductive health clinics are “selling” fetal tissue and organs.

The myth that abortion causes mental health problems should have been long sinceput to restat this point. But in case you needed yet more evidence that those anti-choice signs insisting that “women DO regret abortion” are full of it, here’s some.

According to a new study that tracked hundreds of women who had abortions, more than 95 percent of participants reported that ending a pregnancy was the right decision for them. Feelings of relief outweighed any negative emotions, even three years after the procedure.

Researchers examined both women who had first-trimester abortions and women who had procedures after that point (which are often characterized as “late-term abortions”). When it came to ...

The myth that abortion causes mental health problems should have been long sinceput to restat this point. But in case you needed yet more evidence that those anti-choice signs insisting ...